Chinese University Buys US-Banned Nvidia AI Chips
Summary
A Chinese university under US trade sanctions bought two Nvidia H200 AI chips and also rented servers equipped with restricted chips through domestic companies. The purchases have renewed questions over US export controls as lawmakers push for tighter monitoring of advanced chip sales to China.
Key Points
- Northwestern Polytechnical University, which is on the US trade sanctions list, bought two Nvidia H200 chips through Shaanxi Bosuan Network Technology.
- The university also rented servers with eight H200 chips each, along with A100 and A800 chips, for AI model training and reinforcement learning.
- Reuters says other Chinese universities, including Shenzhen University and Wuhan University of Technology, also bought restricted Nvidia chips this year.
- US lawmakers and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang continue to clash over whether chip sales to China should be tightened or expanded.
